De-Lovely

[MacGuffin]

Trailer

Release Date: June 25th, 2004 (select cities); expands to other cities at later dates

Cast: Kevin Kline (Cole Porter), Ashley Judd (Linda Porter), Jonathan Pryce, Keith Allen (Irving Berlin), Angie Hill (Ellin Berlin), Natalie Cole, Allan Corduner, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Mick Hucknall, Diana Krall, Alanis Morissette, Caroline O'Connor (Ethel Merman), Peter Polycarpou (Louis B. Mayer), Robbie Williams, John Barrowman, Nicola Dawn, Lara Fabian, Vivian Green, Lemar Obika

Director: Irwin Winkler (Life as a House, The Net, At First Sight, Night and the City, Guilty by Suspicion)

Screenwriter: Jay Cocks (cowriter of Strange Days, Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence)

Based Upon: The life and career of songwriter Cole Porter and his wife.

Premise: Early 20th century American composer Cole Porter (Kline) looks back on his life as if it was all one big stage production with singing and dancing, and his wife, Linda Lee Porter (Judd), was his costar, in the unlikely story of a gay man who nonetheless married and fell in love with a woman.

[matt35mm]

I dunno.  It could be good, it could be bad.  One thing though is the title... I don't think it's gonna attract many people.  I think would just confuse most people.  I was confused until I saw the trailer--that makes it pretty clear, but okay...

[Stefen]

The title makes is sound like a foreign film. De-lovely In The Comatorium.